Category: Philanthropy

Strategic planning is an important skill to a business leader because it helps in strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation. It is through strategic planning that Mathew Fleeger has been able to push the needs and interests of Gulf Coast Western, an oil and gas exploration company, covered. In every business, planning is an important recipe for success. There is no company that can succeed without planning in advance on how to handle various aspects of the business and how to move forward in general.

As the president and the chief executive officer of Gulf Coast Western Limited, Mathew Fleeger is involved in the daily operations of the company. This means that he understands the challenges and opportunities that the field experts gets to experience as they continue with their research and exploration activities. By being in direct contact with the workers, Fleeger is able to formulate various strategic plans that will see the company maximize on the opportunities available while at the same time minimizing exposure to risks.

One of the strategic plans that Mathew Fleeger has been able to formulate and implement at Gulf Coast Western is the use of advanced technology in oil and gas exploration. It is important to highlight that a considerable number of companies have been using old technology to explore gases and oils. This is a strategy that has been adopted with the aim of lowering exploration expenses but it has proven not reliable as it has very low output.

Besides incorporating technology in the operations of Gulf Coast Western Limited, Mathew Fleeger has been pivotal in engaging other related and unrelated businesses in the entire industry. He is focused on ensuring that there is a good working environment that can support the operations of any company. This explains why Joint Venture has been able to enter into agreements with various oil and gas exploration companies in the United States.

Betsy DeVos currently serves as the United States Secretary of Education. Her appointment to this post was met with a lot of praise and controversy from different ends in the aisle of education. Betsy DeVos is well known for her leadership in the school choice program and her championing for reforms in the education sector. Betsy DeVos’ genuine concern and interest in the education sector is evident not only in her actions as an adult but also through her philanthropy over the years. She has offered funding and also promoted a number of educational organizations in the grassroots for years. Betsy DeVos has championed for the school choice concept throughout her political involvement with the Michigan Republican Party and has donated generously towards this cause.

Work Experience

Betsy DeVos has been the chairperson of the Philanthropy Roundtable, which seeks to educate legislators on the need as well as promoting philanthropy by partnering with donors. She believed that these partnerships would be crucial in fulfilling all the philanthropic needs throughout the nation. Betsy used her position to encourage giving in areas that were considered needy like the K-12 education especially in the area of vouchers and school choice. Betsy DeVos revealed in an interview that her interest blossomed during her stint in two not-for-profit education charities in Michigan. She saw the struggle that most low-income families had to contend with in order to put their children in the right schools. She dedicated her support for the legislation for scholarships and vouchers for such families with an aim of boosting the number of children attending schools despite their challenging backgrounds. She took her advocacy for these programs to the national level by working with different educational non-profits in various states in the nation. Betsy is active in her community and is the former chair of the American Federation for Children and serves in a number of other local and national boards like the American Enterprise Institute, ArtPrize, DeVos Institute for Arts Management and the Foundation for Excellence in Education.

Philanthropy

Betsy DeVos philanthropic work does not only involve monetary donations but also working through a number of non-profit organizations like the Foundation for Excellence in Education and Kids Hope USA. She has been a mentor at the Grand Rapids Public Schools for about 15 years. Philanthropy seems to run in the DeVos’ family, with Betsy DeVos and her husband contributing a total of $11.6 million to charity in 2015 alone according to Forbes. The main benefactors of this generous contribution were art and education organizations. Her active involvement in philanthropy has helped a lot of school-going children get a chance of attending school and increased the awareness of her school choice concept. Betsy DeVos graduated attended Calvin College located in Grand Rapids, Michigan where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Adam Milstein has contributed greatly to the awareness creation of the Jewish community. From his work towards changing the way the world looks at Jews, their history and their role in global participation, it is clear that indeed he has the Jewish community at heart.

The long travel back to the dark days of the Kishinev Slaughter in 1903, is a reminder to the Jewish people, that in various phases of history, they have had to endure extreme humiliation even in circumstances where they seemed substantially able to defend themselves. In his piece titled The Fight Against The NEW Anti-Semitism, Adam Milstein recounts the words of Nahman Bialik, who observed in his poem “The Slaughter,” that while mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters were being butchered by gangs in Kishinev, the “Sons of Maccabees” were “concealed and cowering.” This reference to the perceived non-resistance of the Jewish men serves as an eye-opener to the fact that the Jewish people must fight for themselves. Ultimately, through the years, the Jewish community has stood up to fight anti-Semitism and its many forms.

Adam Milstein has worked to empower his people in various ways. Having moved to the United States in pursuit of a better life, Milstein joined the Southern California Business School. He later went into business, serving the Los Angeles real estate market as an investment manager.

Drawing from his lessons in consulting expertise, fundraising, and participation in philanthropic activities, Milstein has been able to bring together like-minded non-profit organizations to work together towards shared goals.

Having built a firm ground in his assertiveness, Adam Milstein is using various platforms to share his wisdom and insights as well as forming a firm base of Jewish support